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Show LETTERS TO THE EDITOR i Capability ; Editor: Being a student interested and , active in student government, having experienced the rigors of an election, and being a member of LDSSA, I'd like to mention the unfair practices being employed in this year's election. First of all, there's the cash donation offered to the group with the largest voter turnout, which was conveniently dropped in Tuesday's Chronicle. This is not only unethical, but it clearly violates the American idea of "free elections." Second, the unfair treatment of certain candidates in being allowed "equal time" (?) to speak to the largest student group on campus. When these candidates approached the individual chapters about being allowed to ' speak to them, they were told that a general forum would be held. Later, however, said candidates were chided and told that if they didn't have enough support it's because they hadn't spoken to each of the individual chapters. Third, one of the presidential candidates sponsored a bill (86) limiting campaign expenditures, and necessitating publication of all donations, INCLUDING DONATIONS IN KIND. The limit ;s to be $500 per campaign. Said i andidate spent $185 in the p imaries, yet he used at least la? t night (Tuesday) the entire second floor of Mountain Bell -.nd its phones for his calling ampaign. This is most certainly i Jonation in kind, and I'd like Mr. vtoss to please make public, according to his Assembly Bill if86, the exact cost .of said donation in kind and his campaign cam-paign expenditures. Lastly, Duane Moss also asked that the elections for Tuesday be invalidated, as he was not able to distinguish where to vote for himself or for Todd Hayes. This was complied with, and the elections now run until Friday. Mr. Moss claims to be running a low-key, low-cost campaign at the grassroots level. In view of his activity at Ma Bell, it seems more that he's running for the downtown people. Mr. Moss's entire campaign seems to be against whatever Mr. Hayes has done or said. I would like to ask him to please run on his own merits and stop claiming that Mr. Hayes will destroy everything. Elections should be based on what people are capable of doing, and not on emotions or claims. Randy Mason Faulty race Editor: To the IM office: I am writing this letter to yoi office in hopes that you can kee this Friday's IM skiing event fror being the "farce" it has been i the last few years. IM skiing has become the fu i race of the year for school race t as well as resort instructors. If yc look at your team winners from last year all but one was an instructor in-structor from Alta and all but two were not even enrolled as students at the University. Some fraternities enlist the help of instructors to help them win a place in the event. They use a member's name but if you checked out their ID you would find different. Skiing is such a beautiful sport to be ruined by the neglect and stupidity of the faulty officials running the event. As I understand, un-derstand, part of this event set up is for novice skiers only. The novice has little or no experience in ski racing. Please see that this is enforced. An Interested Sportsman Thus spake... Editor: In response to Maurine Brimhall of the Citizens for Decency and James Barker, commissioner of public safety, I hear Zarathustra: "And there are others who come along, heavy and creaking like carts carrying stones downhill: they talk much of dignity and virtue they call their brake virtue. . . lr "And others are proud of their p handful of justice and commit outrages against all things for its sake, till the world is drowned ir their injustice. Oh, how ill the in word virtue comes out of thei rs mouths! And when they say, 'I an u just,' it always sounds like 'I an just revenged.' With their virtue i they want to scratch out the eyes i of their enemies, and they exalt themselves only to humble others. . . "And then again there are such as consider it virtue to say 'Virtue is necessary'; but at bottom they believe only that the police is necessary..." "And some who cannot see what is high in man call it virtue that they see all-too-closely what is low in man: thus they call their evil eye virtue." Read it again. Bob Harris Tricky Dan Editor: In response to letters about the Chronicle being a lousy newspaper, and the question about funding it, I want to place a not-too-serious vote of support for the Archie Bunkers, meatheads and dingbats. Steggell's - over-dramatizations and Waldo's verbal nonsense have at least confirmed and strengthened my own views. Woody's 'Shakespearean' babblings bab-blings have inspired me to read the Book of Mormon. Star Trek has contributed to my sanity by contradicting all those fatalistic realities that plague me. The ' Chronicle also has" all those i movie ads that I can't find in : the Deseret News. And despite r their seriousness, the letters to the 1 editor always supply a laugh or i two. After being bombarded by ntellectual, impersonal trivia ;l i day, it is quite a relief to recycle : my mind with nonsensical, but " very human trivia. I simply sai. jri long live foolishness-it mals me feel all the wiser. And mail suggest that the Salt Lake Tribune " sky-rocket its sales by replacing I its Sunday comics supplement i with the Chronicle. HI la''? f Steggell over Dick Tracy day ; J Craig Clover As lovely as... o Editor: "Myvote'sjustone-hesaidtorot "It really doesn't count." "The victor'll win, no help me By a sizeable amount. "Now hear me out, my friend. I said Remember just yesterday So many bel ieve the same I But someone might have M just yesterday two JP Because just one d,dn They flipped a com and one out ' Because YOU didn't vote. : Now if you have a voice 1 iT friend , j j Vote and let it be heard TodecidethePres.de j By a flip of a coin is Co to the polls ad Pf" j Don't be the cause ot tte" coin , (thP silent-thf ':; On the soul of the Bill Partridge |